Word: subways
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...which the actors are all engaged in some form of nefarious and illegitimate enterprise, constantly flinging at each other such phrases as "Says you," "Is 'at so?", "Yeah?" It is the work of Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison who turned out a creditable thriller last season called Subway Express...
...Manhattan, Emil Sternart, just returned from the country, was painfully stung by a bee while riding in the subway...
...Some of his principals exhibited pamphlets found on their pupils which read: "Down with the schools, the flag, the principals!" They told how scholars played hookey on May Day, played "escape from prison" in place of hide-&-seek. Viewed with alarm was a 15-year-old caught on the subway with books by Lenin, Scott Nearing and Harvard's Professor Felix Frankfurter...
Next week Manhattanites may expect to see billboards and subway placards advertising "Opera at the Polo Grounds." Impresario Alfredo Salmaggi will offer Aida in New York's big baseball park on Aug. 2, second annual presentation. Last year's outdoor Aida drew crowds who cannot afford Metropolitan opera seats, can afford Polo Ground opera at $1. Encouraged by success, Maestro Salmaggi has swelled this year's cast to 1,000, has added three camels, three elephants, eight horses to the Egyptian props. Impressive in the big concrete stadium will be vocal choruses, troupes of dancers, parades in full oriental pomp...
Resigned. Oren Root, 57, president of Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Co., owners and operators of the Hudson River tubes (Manhattan-New Jersey subway route), onetime motorman, conductor, inspector on the oldtime metropolitan street railway system of New York. During his eleven-year presidency, Hudson & Manhattan obligations rose in the market: 1st lien 5% bonds, from 57 to 99½; adjusted mortgage income 5% bonds from 16 to 83⅜; preferred and common stocks from almost no sale to 81 and 48⅝respectively. On the preferred stock, a dividend of 2½% semiannually was instituted. Reasons for resignation: "Entirely personal...